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ondelette commented on the blog post Justice Department Accuses BP of “Gross Negligence” in Oil Disaster
Not to interrupt the party, but there is a Caribbean-wide tsunami watch in effect as of right now, due to the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica.
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ondelette commented on the blog post Schneiderman Victims: Share Your Thoughts on the Settlement
Nevertheless, it’s a complete breach of pseudonym privacy. I have strict reasons for needing my pseudonym privacy on this and all other fora on which I comment and blog. I have even stricter reasons why anyone who has access to my machine identity I need to be able to trust with that identity to protect my privacy. Violation could result in a violation of international law.
I am so out of here permanently.
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ondelette commented on the blog post Schneiderman Victims: Share Your Thoughts on the Settlement
How did you do that?
Never mind, I’m not sure I really want to know. Did BackEast mention being where you put him at, or did you out him using your abilities as owner at this site? Because I’m here under the impression that my pseudonymity is secure. If it’s subject to outing without notice, I need to know.
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ondelette commented on the blog post The Harris Claim: Side Deals and Numbers
The other thing is the line item for administrative costs. She gets the 42 person investigative team out of this, and the collaboration with Nevada et al. If that’s paid for out of the settlement money, nobody in the governor’s office, the legislature, or the ballot initiative process can attack it by calling it a “costly wild goose chase with the taxpayer’s money” and forcing it be shut down on spending grounds.
Ask your sister. That’s a real possibility here in California, too.
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ondelette commented on the blog post The Harris Claim: Side Deals and Numbers
On the other hand, there were a set of Attorneys General who were out there investigating while there were a lot who were content to settle right off the bat. I think David is being just a bit harsh if those who demanded more and side deals and the right to keep fighting are first to be characterized as selling out (first announcement) and then, when it’s found that they did get somewhere for their states and have secured the right to keep fighting (to which they are beholden) they are accused of “fleecing” the rest of the country.
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ondelette commented on the blog post The Harris Claim: Side Deals and Numbers
She also continues to work with the AG of Nevada according to her page.
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ondelette commented on the blog post Schneiderman Victims: Share Your Thoughts on the Settlement
Also posted this on David Dayen’s column:
Here is the press release from Kamala Harris’ office on California’s terms for the settlement. We are apparently still pursuing the False Claims, we will have a 42 person task force to investigate fraud, and will have a continuing ongoing collaboration with the AG of Nevada. And there are some separate state settlements in addition to the federal settlements, and terms that have to be met in California court.
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ondelette commented on the blog post 49-State Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Will Be Finalized Thursday
Here is the press release from Kamala Harris’ office on California’s terms for the settlement. We are apparently still pursuing the False Claims, we will have a 42 person task force to investigate fraud, and will have a continuing ongoing collaboration with the AG of Nevada. And there are some separate state settlements in addition to the federal settlements, and terms that have to be met in California court.
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ondelette commented on the blog post 49-State Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Will Be Finalized Thursday
There were some holdouts and now there are none. David, what does this mean:
There will be plenty more to say about this once we get all of the facts of the claim.
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ondelette commented on the diary post The Great Game by ubetchaiam.
I’m not lying about you and DEBKA, I’m saying that’s the quality of the sources you reference, and it is. I’m not supporting any aid by the administration to the Syrian opposition. You and the people like you on this site, are the people who support the Manichaean view that there are exactly two sides [...]
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ondelette commented on the diary post The Great Game by ubetchaiam.
I merely call your attention to your own changing standards. Do more than “scan” the report, which is from Doctors Without Borders. Do you have a problem with their methodology, or do you think they are some proxy of your precious conspiracies of NATO and Western Powers? Read what is said. It is offered without [...]
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ondelette commented on the diary post The Great Game by ubetchaiam.
Tanks to Bahrain, a great sin. Tanks to Syria? Oh, we can live with that and even supply articles about how the torture and death isn’t as bad as all that, right Wendy? Did you read my citation from MSF? Torture and stationing security forces at hospitals. Forced amputations of injured demonstrators. But don’t worry, we’ll [...]
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ondelette commented on the diary post The Great Game by ubetchaiam.
Excuse me? There are Russian and Iranian hegemonic desires as well. That’s what I meant. You have, in fact, chosen sides if you believe all the hegemonic desires are on one side of the game — the U.S/Israeli side. Why is this so hard to see here at FDL?
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ondelette commented on the diary post NYT: Israeli former mossad agent admits they want to exploit the conflict in Syria to weaken Iran. by Dameocrat.
With respect to this report, the cases are very similar to what PHR (Physicians for Human Rights, a U.S. based medical forensics human rights organization) also reported. Please read in its entirety.
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ondelette commented on the diary post The Great Game by ubetchaiam.
Are you forgetting that both parties in a Great Game are attempting colonialism and hegemony? It sure sounds like it. Russia and Iran are no more innocent defenders against colonialism than the U.S. would ever be with the current crop of jerks running the think tanks. And the internal situation in Syria is, as your [...]
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ondelette commented on the blog post Reports Show Terrorism Is An Overblown Issue
So let’s see…
We take 1/2 of the federal domestic law enforcement and put it on domestic terrorist threats. Then we take between 40 and 60 percent of what remains and put it on child pornography.
Then we find out (two years ago) that the rate of child sex offenders was one tenth what was estimated by Congress. And now we find out that the rate of domestic terrorist threat from homegrown “jihadis” is a tiny fraction of what the government thought it was, if it exists at all.
So with 3/4 or more of federal law enforcement neutered by all of this, does anyone wonder that the group called “white collar criminals” never got prosecuted?
Can we get a show of hands on how many think that was a coincidence?
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ondelette commented on the diary post NYT:Israeli former mossad agent admits they want to exploit the conflict in Syria to weaken Iran. by Dameocrat.
First off it’s not lady. “The West wanting this in order to justify an attack on Iran”, you have zero to prove this, some Mossad guy wrote an Op-Ed for the NYT is all. He isn’t “the West”, he certainly isn’t me, and he doesn’t at all speak for the U.S. or Europe, the combined [...]
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ondelette commented on the diary post NYT:Israeli former mossad agent admits they want to exploit the conflict in Syria to weaken Iran. by Dameocrat.
War cheerleader? Since when? You people are the ones backing the arms dealer Russia in this.
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ondelette commented on the diary post NYT:Israeli former mossad agent admits they want to exploit the conflict in Syria to weaken Iran. by Dameocrat.
Your guy, Giraldi, is being cited by the Assad regime for an excuse for his violence, that makes you what? It went from the pages of the American Conservative to the U.S. blogosphere to Pravda and IRNA to SANA to the official excuses of the Syrian Government. As far as I can tell, the story [...]
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ondelette commented on the diary post Censorship & Anti-Syria Imperialism at Lenin’s Tomb by fairleft.
The racism was there before the rebellion, and Qaddafi was employing Tuareg tribesmen at least, if not other mercenary groups. The term ‘mercenary’, once it gets going in rumor, anywhere in Africa, will spread like wildfire, it has a history in the decolonization wars. Like I said, refugees with dark skin were afraid to go [...]
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